Wow great post knifeguy.

Sorry Horndog it is the price you pay for being a trendsetter having people want to be like you.

I have about a 30 year old Norton belt grinder with a 42 inch 1 inch belt. It is the kind of thing a Pro would use for handles. I have been eyeing those knifemaker specific 2 inch ones though. I got mine for 40$ at a garage sale so 1500$ would be quite a bump though. It sounds like an airplane taking off.

I find it so mind numbingly fast I use it mostly for working raw annealed steel.
I do less damage with my lansky. I do sometimes use the lansky to set the exact bevel then do about 5 hours of grunt work in 5 seconds with the grinder then finish up with the Lansky. The grinder is also really nice for really dull knives or yard tools. I pick up nice hand tools at second hand sales etc and fix them up often.

I think HornDog could make great knives. I think getting a wicked good edge and the right bevel angle is the hardest thing about knifemaking and he already has it down. Cutting out the shape of a knife with a cutting wheel (angle grinder)
and shaping it with dull 60 grit belts is easy compared to that. If you send it out for HT it is really all there is to it.

[censored] that YG has a wicked edge. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />